How does an archive go from a mere repository to a living resource with a creative energy that extends into the present? NICOLE WOLF, curator and anthropologist, explores this question by means of the collection of the Arse-nal – Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin. MADHUSREE DUTTA, Artistic Director of the Academy, introduces her extensive Project Cinema City, which centers on the act of watching from a female perspective and the archiving of Bollywood cinema culture. A discussion between the two presenters follows the lectures.